Do You Live in One of the 20 "Geekiest" Cities in America?

This week a good friend told me about an article she encountered on Yahoo News. Forbes magazine online shared the National Science Foundation's list of communities with the highest percentage of STEM-employed professionals in America. Forbes magazine deemed the list the "20 Geekiest Cities in America" for its article. While the list itself is interesting in its own right, our GeekMom readers might also be interested in how Forbes defined "geek":

The most recent version of that report defines “geeks” as any workers with a bachelor’s level of knowledge and education in science or engineering-related fields or workers in occupations that require some degree of technical knowledge or training.

In the “Science and Engineering Indicators 2010,” the NSF ranked the top 20 cities in the United States by percentage of workers in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics occupation.

Now...I downloaded the entire PDF of the Science and Engineering Indicators 2010 and didn't encounter the word "geek" anywhere in the document. So the report isn't what defined "geek", it was seemingly Forbes magazine.

I was tickled to learn that I live near one of the "geekiest" communities in America, the Fort Walton Beach-Crestview-Destin, Florida area (#20), likely due to the STEM-talent working at Eglin Air Force Base, which is a large R&D/testing base for military technologies. My military/STEM family has also been privileged to live near #5 and #17 on the list, as well.

Is your community on the list? What do you think about this definition of "geek"?